1st Edition

Writing Put to the Test Teaching for the High Stakes Essay

By Amy Benjamin Copyright 2006
144 Pages
by Eye On Education

144 Pages
by Eye On Education

144 Pages
by Eye On Education

This book helps educators improve students’ ability to write clear, coherent essays in response to on-demand writing prompts. While it focuses on students’ abilities to succeed at on-demand writing, it also promotes the teaching of writing as an expression of art and self. For grades 4 -12, it provides examples of responses to narrative and persuasive prompts, and provides savvy advice about what... Read more
About the Author
Introduction On-Demand Writing
Writing Instruction in the Age of Testing
Resistance
Using the Test Itself as a Teaching Tool
Teaching Writing Through Rhetorical Modes
The Narrative Prompt
The Persuasive Prompt
Assistive Intervention That Works to Improve Writing
Problem Solvers
From Speech to Writing
Language and Error

Biography

Authored by Benjamin, Amy